Combined mop head and wringer.



No. 818,498. PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

w. H. WILEY. COMBINED MOP HEAD AND WRINGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 22. 1905.

' M [d v secured a pair of companion brackets 4, each ferential groove 2 in the handle, allowing the WILLIAM R. WILEY, OF EVANSTON, ILLINQIS.

COMBINED MOP HEAD AND WRINGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24, 1906.

Application filed May 22,1905. Serial No. 261,629.

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. WILEY, a citizen of the United States, residing 'at Evanston, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Mop Heads and Wringers, of which the following is a specification.

The object-of this invention is to provide a mounting for the mop-rack which will serve as a wringer for squeezing the water out of the mop-cloth and at the same time provide a firm and rigid support for holding the mopcloth on the handle of the mop while the mop is being used.

Another object of the invention is to im prove the method of securing the supporting rollers to the mop-handle or shank so that an even and constant tension will be exerted on the rollers, compressing them against the interposed mop-cloth and at the same time allowing the rollers to be turned for the purpose of wringing out the mop-cloth.

The invention consists in the features of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings illustrating the invention, Figure 1 is a side View of the mop of the present invention; Fig. 2, an end view thereof; Fig. 3, a top or plan view with the mop-rag re moved and the handle sectioned, and Fig. 4 an end view of the bracket-arms with the rollers removed.

The device consists of a handle 1, provided near its lower end with a circumferential groove 2, and the end of the handle below the groove is cut down to provide fiat faces 3, as best shown in Fig. 2. To the handle are consisting of laterally projecting arms 5, united together by means of a yoke 6, having a rounded head 7, and the heads of the companion brackets are inserted in the circum arms of the yoke to abut against the flat faces 3 of the handle, and the yoke as a whole is clamped onto the handle of the mop by meansof a ferrule 8, which is driven into place and provides means for rigidly securing the brackets to the handle. Each of the lat erally-projecting arms 5 terminates in a depending arm 9, having on its end a hook 10, openat its inner side, and the arms of the companion brackets are secured together at the angle 11 by means of clips 12, each consisting of a pair of collars 13 and 14, disposed at right angles to one another and connected together by means of a neck 15. The collar 13 embraces the adjacent outwardly-projecting arms 4, and the collar 14 embraces the adjacent depending arms 9, so that the clamps on each side of the mop serve to rigidly secure the companion brackets together at the outer corners. The brackets serve as a pivotal mounting for rollers 16 and 17, each of which is provided at its ends with pivotins 18, which are journaled in the hooked ends 10 of the depending arms 9 of the brackets. One of the pivot-pins 18 is elongated to form a crank 19, provided on its end with a handle 20 for rotating the roller 17. At each end of the rollers is a plate 21, interposed between the rollers and the depending bracketarms, and through the plates the pivot-pins are extended. The pivot-pins for the rollers 17 extend through elongated slots 22, which allow of a slight movement of the rollers, and the rollers are held under tension against each otherby the resiliency of the depending arms 9, which are outwardly sprung to allow the hooked ends to embrace the pivot-pins. Between the rollers is mounted a mop-cloth 23 in the form of an endless belt or apron, which can be turned by the movement of the handle to wring out the water from the mopcloth by the pressure of the rollers.

In assembling the parts the companion brackets are mounted on the handle to have the rounded cross-heads 7 lie within the grooves or channels in the handle, which brings the sections of the yokes into abutment with the flattened sides of the handle, after which the ferrule is driven into place, tightly clamping the brackets onto the handle. The rollers are inserted in place by outwardly springing the depending arms 9 of the brackets, which normally occupy the position shown in Fig. 4, into the position shown in Fig. 2. This spreading of the bracket-arms not only serves to hold the rollers under tension in contact with one another, but likewise tends to more tightly clamp the yokes of the brackets around the handle, so that the parts will be rigidly held. in place and adapted to withstand the strain of long continued and vigorous usage. The slots in the plates 21 enable the rollers to accommodate themselves to, mop-cloths of different thickness, since one of the rollers will be yieldingly held under the tension of the bracket-arms, and the interposed mop-cloth will be tightly squeezed or clamped between the rollers. This squeez- IOC ing or clamping serves to hold the mop-cloth tightly in place during the operation of mopping the floor and at the same time allows the m op-cloth to be wrung out by the revolution of the handle when it is desired to squeeze the water from the mop-cloth.

What I regard. as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v 1.. In a combined mop-head and wringer, the combination of a handle provided near its end with a circumferential groove or channel, brackets each consisting of a yoke having a cross-head entered into the circumferential groove or channel and having laterally-extending side arms terminating in angularlydisposed bracket-arms, the adjacent bracketarms of the two brackets diverging with respect to one another, a ferrule surrounding the handle and the yokes and adapted to clamp the one to the other, two rollers mounted between the bracket-arms and held under tension by the resiliency of the bracket-arms, and clips surrounding adjacent portions of the brackets for clamping the brackets together, substantially as described.

2. In a combined mop head and wringer, the combination of a handle provided near its lower end with a circumferential groove or channel, a pair of brackets each consisting of a central yoke having a cross-head adapted to enter the circumferential groove or channel, the yokes terminating in laterallyextending arms, said arms terminating in depending bracket-arms, the adjacent bracket-arms diverging with respect to one another, and each of the bracket-arms being provided at its end with an inwardly-opening hook, clips positioned at the angle between the laterally extending and depending arms of the brackets, each clip consisting of two collars in angular relation to one another surrounding the bracket-arms, and a neck connecting the collars, a pair of rollers, each being provided with a projecting pivot-pin adapted to be embraced by the hooked ends of the depending arms for holding the depending arms distended and under spring tension, a handle formed by extending one of the pivot-pins for rotating one of the rollers, and plates at the ends of the rollers, each of the plates being provided at one side with a perforation for one of the pivot-pins and at the opposite side with an elongated slot for the other pin, said plates being interposed between the depending bracketarms and the ends of the rollers, substantially as described.

WILLIAM R. WILEY. Witnesses:

WALKER BANNING, T. A. BANNING, Jr. 

